A MAN who frightened a village community and harassed a woman has appeared in court for sentencing. Matthew Arnold was already subject to a restraining order when he alarmed Lambourn villagers by asking them to contact his victim for him. Paul Lennon, prosecuting at Reading Crown Court on Friday, March 8, said the order was made in respect of Valerie Self – the mother of his former partner, Ruby Self. It also forbade the 28-year-old from attending their home in Northfields, Lambourn. But last December 2, Arnold himself called police, ostensibly to make a welfare check on a child. Asked where h…